Theatre

You’ll be a part of the next generation of actors, directors, designers, stage technicians and playwrights changing the landscape of live performance.

At Columbia, you’ll be a part of the next generation of actors, directors, designers, stage technicians and playwrights changing the landscape of live performance. We mount between 30 and 40 full-stage and workshop productions each semester, and you’ll learn from faculty who have worked on all sorts of theatre–­–­­­from Tony Award-winning plays to jaw-dropping black-box and devised theatrical events.

Events Calendar

Written and Directed by Steve Dykes (Visiting Faculty from Rose Bruford College, UK)
At a time when the United States’ volunteer army is stretched to the breaking point, Glockenspiel explores the war on the home front, the alliances formed by those left behind and the sense of betrayal and rage that undermines trust, support and hope....Get the details

Written and Directed by Steve Dykes (Visiting Faculty from Rose Bruford College, UK)
At a time when the United States’ volunteer army is stretched to the breaking point, Glockenspiel explores the war on the home front, the alliances formed by those left behind and the sense of betrayal and rage that undermines trust, support and hope....Get the details

An homage to American musicals of the Jazz Age and the effect they had on one adoring fan. The Man in Chair, an agoraphobic Broadway fanatic with a "non-specific sadness" is comforted by a recording of “The Drowsy Chaperone,” a fictional 1928 musical comedy. As he listens to this rare recording, the musical’s characters inhabit...Get the details

The creative euphoria of the Harlem Renaissance has given way to the harsher realities of the Great Depression as a handful of friends navigate high times and dire challenges. Guy dreams of designing gowns for and sipping champagne with Josephine Baker in Paris. In the meantime he keeps his best friend, Angel, as close to...Get the details

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